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Burton Albion 4 - 0 Morecambe

"Tonight, they're the scrappy ones that fall to you in the box and you stick them in. Hopefully that gives me the confidence to keep sticking them away.

"Chris Beardsley, every day in training he is talking about POMO - position of maximum opportunity. He just keeps shouting that at you, so you just need to keep getting in there.

"I'm sure he was shouting that at me at the end of the match!

"I'll just keep getting into those positions, and it's up to everyone to get it in that area."

Boyce has now notched hat-tricks with Cliftonville in Northern Ireland, Ross County in the Scottish Premiership and at Burton.

He acknowledges what a lift seeing a player with the matchball can do for the team, himself and Fraser having both come out for post-match media duties over the past week with the ball under their arms, signed by their Albion teammates.

But the Brewers forward was just as pleased with a second successive clean sheet on Tuesday night - and that is a run he wants to see continue against Bristol Rovers on Saturday.

"Anyone in our attacking five could score a hat-trick the way we play, and to have two people score hat-tricks in a week, it's that confidence for me and Scotty to get goals," he added.

"It takes a bit of pressure off our defence as well.

"That is two clean sheets in a row. The goals we've been conceding have been deflections or fouls on keepers that fell to people.

"If anything, a clean sheet is as important as a hat-trick, just to keep the confidence of the back line up, because we know when people are scoring, we're going to win games if we keep a clean sheet - and we've done that for two in a row.